"Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" by Harriet Jacobs has a classic, conversational and realistic style in which the reader feels as if he were talking to the protagonist. The narration is simple and attractive as in "I was born a slave, but I never new it till six years of happy childhood has passed away". Another key stylistic feature is the directness when addressing the reader as in "Reader, did you ever rate? I hope not".
Creole is a primary language
The statue which the goddess Venus (Aphrodite) brings to life for him, is named Galateia, they get married and have a son Paphos and a daughter Metharme and they are the grandparents of Adonis who grows up to loves Venus
"It addresses the effects of racism and oppression in society" is the best which describes the reason why "Sympathy" is a naturalist poem. Literary naturalism emphasizes observation and the scientific method in the fictional portrayal of reality.
Other characteristics of literary naturalism are:
- detachment: the author maintains an impersonal tone and disinterested point of view
- determinism: the opposite of free will, in which a character's fate has been decided, even predetermined, by impersonal forces of nature beyond human control
- a sense that the universe itself is indifferent to human life